The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-02-18
INDUSTRIAL BRIEFLETS.


of the southern territories of the Ar
gentinc republic that has taken place
Turing the last six years, consequent
Upon the successful campaign which
swept the Indians of the fertile plains
,evond the Alvina frontier Five years
lgo. it is remarked, the valley of the
Rio Negro was mere geographical ex-
preston: to-day it is thickly stocked and
settled from the mouth Of the river to
he Nauquen. Patagones and Niedma
we're then mere struggling villages;
now they are ilourishing settlements
supplying the wants of Il rich territory.
The government has ordered the meas
urement and subdivision Of thousand
square leagues near the colony. and
acw expeditions are talked of to eX-
olore the neighborng territories, The
Welsh colonists are said to be eager to
,ettle at the foot of the Andes, where
here is an abundance Of fertile land
or large population. Great progress
las been made in the means of com
nunication now regularly established
both by land and water for three hun
bred miles up the Rio Negro valley rs
AR as Roca.
A Frenchman. NJ. A. Nodon, has re-
Gently invented a hygrometer which
can be put upon the market at very
ow rate, but which is claimed to be at
once very sensitive and very reliable, so
" to be available to all for weather
forecasts and for use in such arts as re-
luirc nicely-graduated condition of
he mir as TO thcm0isture-hot-ho for
instance. The sensitive medium is Il
strip of Bristol board, not ut all sensi-
tive in itself to moisture. covered on
one side by gelatinc, which changes in
Icngth at the least alteration of hygro-
metric condition. BY coiling the Bristol
board into helix. OF which one end is
firmly held. the other end is connected
with Il needle on Il dial moves the
needle back and forth on scale rs the
moisture of the air increases or de-
creases The whole thing is enclosed
in box like that of an anoroid baro-
meter, and forms avery simple, strong,
and. as claimed above, very reliable in
strumenL
A report has been received from the
Indian agricultural department stating
that the area of the rice crop in Bur-
nah is now estimated at 10, 223 acres
over last years area, and that If the
weather remains favorable, as it has
been generally throughout the growing
season, an export surplus OF about
100000 tons may be expected. An
extraordinary increase in the area OF
the Bombay cotton crop Is also official
Is reported, /, LOG 062 acres being grown
in the British districts, and 1866 in
the native states, US compared with
721, 1ji and $3.50 acres last year An
average area for the British districts is
SS5, 1856 acres. Thus the area is nearly
% per cent. over average and % per
cent over last years acreage; while in
the native states il is nearly l29per cent
over last years area, the average not
being known.
According to statistics compiled
by the New York mercantile exchange,
the receipts of butter in the city during
the year 1886 were 1,GlS, 220 packages
against /, 656, $40 packages in 1885. OF
cheese, 1.943, 2G0 boxes were received,
or IFS, 927 boxes less than 1885. In ex-
ports, S. 476 fewer packages of butter
and SO, i3i fewer boxes of cheese were
sent abroad in 1886 than in 1885. The
prices of butter in this market increas-
ed from 2 to cents during the year.
During the month of December, 1886,
there was decrease of 3,036 packages
in the receipts of butter, of 64,l79 box
es in the receipts of chces and of 300
barrels in the receipts Of eggs. rs com
pared with the same month in 1885.
of oleomargarine, 5,006 packages were
received.
DIR. Emil Pott, president of the Ger
man Hop growers society, in his report
for the past year. states that the total
area of land under hop cultivation
throughout the world is about 500, 900
acres, OF which nearly a fourth are in
Bavaria. and the quantity grown last
wear was 92,S42 tons. He estimates
the annual consumption at only S2.2JO
tons, so that there was last year an ex-